> The second part is much harder. Obviously, as soon as we’re past the 2038 cutoff date, all 32-bit programs — using system libraries or not — will simply start

> The second part is much harder. Obviously, as soon as we’re past the 2038 cutoff date, all 32-bit programs — using system libraries or not — will simply start failing in horrible ways. One possibility is to work with faketime to control the system clock. Another is to run a whole VM that’s moved back in time. Yet another is to freeze the time for those programs at the last 32-bit POSIX second. They would just appear to execute incredibly fast :). Of course some will still break, and it’s obviously not suitable for many use cases (but neither is running in the past), but some might be just fine.